alpinegizmo - Latest Comments

Re: Minions

huntinux — Thu, 08 May 2014 08:56:35 -0000

nice blog

Re: Sunday morning pancakes

Claudia Wunderlich — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 04:40:55 -0000

hey david. can you share your rice waffles recipe with us?

Re: Rails on XML, Part 6: The software

Ionas — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:49:44 -0000

Did you serialize XML data to Ruby Objects/Data and used Rails validations?

Re: Rails on XML, Part 4: Rendering views with XSLT

Ionas — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:44:37 -0000

"The final version is a bit more complex, as we added support for rendering partials and doing internationalization."

What do you mean rendering partials? Partials with XSLT code? Were each of those partials complete XSLT documents or snippets? Can you give an example?

Re: Rails on XML, the Series

Ionas — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:36:39 -0000

True, so sad there are only a very few comments on this great series.
I am planning to create a semantical content editor that has cascading assets and asset "designs" (call them content layouts if you want to). And I can't imagen anything else but XML (you can swap out XSL but then you need a "safe" language for XML translation, ERB is certainly not that)

Re: some iPad thoughts

sewa mobil — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:45:44 -0000

Nice article, thanks for sharing.

Re: A medico-linguistic adventure

Flotchup — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:38:39 -0000

Funny, I'm french, went 4 times in Berlin, and yet 3 times at hospital. ALL doctors speak a very good english, and especially an extraordinary... french. Some of us even practice the french "verlen" (a way to speak "indside out" : "verlen" IS the indside out of "l'envers"). That's absolutely amazing... But most part of the time, the rest of the staff is unable to communicate with you.
Moreover, once, I stayed 2 nights with a german patient and a polish one : we spoke in... russian (that I practiced a little bit). Definitely the icing on the cake ;-)

Re: Painless pain

Claudia Wunderlich — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:37:27 -0000

Hey David.
I havetried this recipe 2 times this week already, and each time it came out PERFECT! What I did was use lots of flour before covering the 'blob' with a towel, and nothing stuck to it.
Now, what I discovered was that half an hour in the hot pot was enough to bake the bread with a beautiful crust; I didn't bake it another 15 to 30 minutes with the lid off, didn't seem necessary.
Wow, what an easy method to bake such a beautiful bread!
Thanks so much for sharing this, it is now one of my favorites! (And the bread machine can gather lots of dust ;-) I will translate it into German and send it to my mother; she was very curious about its outcome when I told her about it.
Ciao from le plateau

Re: Rails on XML, Part 7: XML serialization (a gem)

zvp — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:00:28 -0000

Hello, David.
I use Ruby and xml/xslt transformations in my work many years, but, unfortunately, separately.
I like this series of articles very much, because it glues two great things: ruby on rails framework and power of xsl transformations.
Ruby language is great and RoR principles too, but I think that default templates system is weak place in RoR.
HTML produced by them can be invalid, and there is ability to mix business logic.
Your work tries to correct these lacks. It's great!
But I am am confused with use of the external xml/xslt processor.
Looks like it is possible to eliminate superfluous transformations.
What about to turn xml serialization to "binary" xml object and to pass it to xml/xslt processor in binary state?

With hope, zvp.

Re: Are you my doctor?

happyhippy1000 — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:21:45 -0000

hi david.
i have noticed that as well, found it a bit odd in the beginning as well. but now i think it makes for a much more relaxed atmosphere. she says, with her broken arm...
can still have an aperitif at the xmas party in village, no probs: i can hold my glass with my good right hand ;-)

Re: Rails on XML, Part 1: Background

Eric Pugh — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:41:10 -0000

We worked with eXistDB on a site that was powered using these set of technologies, and I would really have loved to have built the frontend in something more powerful, like RoR, and continued to use eXistDB as the XML database. I really like eXistDB as a DB, but as a web dev framework, well XSLT and XQuery for logic parsing are too clumsy to render a pile o' html!

Re: 2008 in figures

Alex Greysukh — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:38:39 -0000

Hi David - how do you like St Petersburg (my former home city)? Do you have any special impressions or something that surprised you? I am interested to hear...

Re: Rails on XML, Part 4: Rendering views with XSLT

christiandlk — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:24:16 -0000

Hi, I am doing a school project using ruby and xslt. Is it possible that you provide any more documentation?...

Thanks for this post.

Re: Rails on XML, Part 4: Rendering views with XSLT

Artur — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:29:51 -0000

would be great

Re: Rails on XML, Part 7: XML serialization (a gem)

JK — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:33:40 -0000

Just wondering, is it neccesary to use the xslt_render rails plugin with xml_serialization gem?
It seems like using just the xml_serialization gem alone as a replacement for Rails' default to_xml will break render :xml => something.to_xml
The resulting "xml" will be a string of the escaped xml.
To make it works, render :text => something.to_xml has to be used instead.

Re: Are you my doctor?

slide scanner — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:14:57 -0000

Here in UK you get both casual and white coat kind of doctors. I think its more important how good they are rather than what they wear.

Re: Comments via disqus

Tomash — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:24:54 -0000

Jekyll is great and comment engine without changing its philosophy and technology - simply wonderful! I'm moving to Jekyll+Discuss, thanks for inspiration :)

Re: Are you my doctor?

Miles Bader — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:27:52 -0000

The lab coat makes me feel a little more secure, to tell the truth... obviously not a whole lot of basis for that, but...

Re: Are you my doctor?

Miles Bader — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:27:33 -0000

[gee, how on earth did it find out my user icon...?]

Re: Rails on XML, Part 4: Rendering views with XSLT

Matt Mitchell — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:04:51 -0000

Hey this is great and thanks for the code. Would you be able to post the final version of the module?

Thanks,
Matt

Re: Escape from magical thinking

alpinegizmo — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:26:05 -0000

A study reported in Science back in 2006 comparing peoples' views in 34 countries finds that the United States ranks near the bottom when it comes to public acceptance of evolution. See http://www.foxnews.com/stor...

Re: Escape from magical thinking

bitherder — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:54:56 -0000

Hey, David. Thanks for the pointer.

Have you seen anything that shows how Europeans stack up against Americans on the subject?

Re: Rails on XML, Part 5: Rails partials with XSLT

Piotr — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:06:02 -0000

OK, I've just noticed you used xsltproc. Not surprising.

Re: Rails on XML, Part 5: Rails partials with XSLT

Piotr — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:05:13 -0000

Obviously! And that's a limitation which I think is in spirit of Rails. Views should be views! I must say i like what you did very much although would gladly hear more about such details as performance, xslt processor you used, have you used XForms at all etc.

Re: Rails on XML, the Series

Piotr — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:40:45 -0000

I'm sooo happy I found what you're doing here.